Evaluative Essay on Meat Inspection
Date Submitted: 02/10/2004 23:40:43
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 5 pages (1305 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 5 pages (1305 words)
Contaminated Meats Over the past few decades there has been an increase in the number of food related illness. Everyday in the U.S., roughly 15,000 are sickened by food borne disease, 900 are hospitalized, and 14 die (Schlosser 195). This increase is a result of the current meat regulation standards that are ineffective in protecting consumers from contaminated meats. These inabilities pose a threat to anyone who consumes beef in the United States. As a means of validating …
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…PRESIDENT CLINTON ANNOUNCES NEW FOOD SAFETY RULES TO PROTECT CONSUMERS" 6 July 1996. 4 Mar. 2004 < http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/1996/07/0362 >.
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
"Testimony of Gary Jay Kushner" 8 Oct. 1997. 4 Mar. 2004 < http://agriculture.senate.gov/Hearings/Hearings_1997/kushner.htm >.
Thompson, Jake. "Meat Inspectors' Role Scrutinized: Critics Say That Despite a New Safety Program, There Are Too Few People to Monitor Plants" Omaha World-Hearld. 24 Aug. 1997.
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